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Topic: BBC: Optimistic People Live Longer! (Read 1744 times)

Was listening to BBC Radio's Discovery today and it was a program about optimism and how it's been proven by research that optimistic people live 8 years longer than pessimists and suffer from lower blood pressure, lower diabetes risks, less cardiovascular problems, etc...

Always look on the bright side of life...http://youtu.be/WlBiLNN1NhQ(I think there is 1 bad word in there, just for those sensitive to it)

Optimists have a longer life-span than pessimists, researchers have concluded.They found that people with a positive outlook live, on average, 19% longer than those who are miserable.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/635292.stm

If you really want to live longer, then you can start with your attitude. Your way of thinking can not only impact the quality of your life, but also how long you actually live. In 2002, researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., found that optimistic people decreased their risk of early death by 50 percent compared with those who leaned more towards pessimism.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7065794/ns/health-forbescom/

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A study of 100,000 women presented at the American Psychosomatic Society's annual meeting Thursday found a strong correlation between optimism and a person's risk for cancer-related death, heart disease and early death.http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=7017131&page=1

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A positive outlook may help guard against heart disease and increase the chances of a long life, a new study suggests, bolstering previous findings.

Because although I have my faith, I tend to believe that I am pessimistic.

Let's just listen to what my Seventh Day Adventist friend said. Eat vegetables and live for 700 years, as God intended it.

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She's touring the facility/and picking up slack.--"For in much wisdom is much grief, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow." Ecclesiastes 1:18--I once believed in causes too, I had my pointless point of view --Life went on no matter who was wrong or right